Showing posts with label Blogging tricks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blogging tricks. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 17, 2015
My Blogging Journey
How it All Started
Began Blogging about a year ago, September 2013 to be precise. I can remember this vividly because that's my birth month. Decided to try something new since ASUU strike had sent us on compulsory holiday. Always wanted a website, but never created one before this time. Joblessness at home made me to finally put my thoughts into action. Didn't really know how to begin, just knew I wanted a place I could post stuff on either reasonable or crappy ones. As always, I went for my reliable search engine 'Google' and created a website which was on blogger platform. Before this time, I had no idea we had different platforms like blogger, word press, or personal website, or had any training in website design, an idea on what I wanted to post on the blog, talkless of the niche I wanted, and also that one could earn from blogging.
Also Read: Basic Tips For Blogging
The Blogging Experience
With the little experience I've gained from blogging, I can now pinpoint the mistakes I made on my first blog which was gracejoseph446.blogspot.com these were:
1. Looking at the URL, other than it's length which is too long, it's complicated with three numbers. This will be hard to recall by readers if in future they want to refer to my blog. You hardly see any professional blog using such URL.
2. No 'After the jump' Summaries: Had about 9 to 10 post on my homepage and each post had no 'read more' tag. You can already imagine how lengthy the home page was and really hard to view other post. Readers had no choice in choosing to which post to read. This will in turn reduce the page views since the content are out on display right from the first visit. It was Oluwaseun of Hallanaija who helped out with things like how to use jump breaks on blogger, reducing the number of post on the homepage to reduce the page load time, instead of a template with a dark background, a better one preferably with a bright background, also referred me to sources for my page content.
Also Read: How To Centralise Blogger Title And Description
3. Blog content: Since I had nothing in mind to blog about, I went for entertainment. It seemed easier blogging about that or copying it to paste if that counts as blogging. Now I realize having original content or even an appropriately edited form of 'copy and paste' can do your blog a lot of good. As at then, you could search for a topic on Google and my blog would fall among the ones on either the 15th or 17th pages, yes! it irritated me a lot.
4. Blogger gadgets: I had a lot of them which also contributed in increasing my blog's page load time. I spent more time trying to design my blog instead of writing relevant content. Most bloggers do this, the design of the blog is one in a million but the content of the blog isn't half as good compared to the design. Before I began blogging, I can recall I bookmarked or saved webpages that provided answers to my questions each time I searched for them on Google and this wasn't because the blog had beautiful designs but it's ability to provide relevant solutions. I returned to these blogs over and over again if I wanted to learn more. What's the use of a beautiful blog if it's empty? The only gadgets that really matter are the basic blogger gadgets.
5. Large Image size: The images were of various sizes, some too tiny while others were extra large. This was because I was blogging from phone and not even a smart phone. Couldn't upload images directly to a blogger post, So I resorted to free image hosting sites. Later, discovered I could post with images by sending them through email.
6. Inconsistency and impatience : So far I wasn't seeing any progress in my blog in terms of traffic and earning some cool cash as I've heard some bloggers testify of. I visited and posted less often and finally I deserted the blog. I'll give credit to some of my fellow bloggers like Larry Frank of Flowing Tech Blog and Johnny Ode of Readers lodge who encouraged and made me realize it wasn't also easy at first for those who finally made it at blogging. From them, I got to know the relevance of backlinks, keywords, joining high PR forums, and above all not giving up.
Within me, I still had the desire to blog, so I created this blog informationtutorial15 (the Tutor). Changed my niche from entertainment because I didn't feel contented posting other people's work on my blog, stalking the net to be the first to get the breaking news. Since my main traffic wasn't coming from Google but social networking sites, it meant less or no page views when the blog was not updated. If I was to continue blogging, I wanted to write what I know, and content that will always generate traffic for me even if it got to be years old. With the knowledge gained from my former blog, i'm now spending time on things that matter more to make my blog better. Even though the traffic isn't rollingIn in thousands now, looking at my blog I can see some significant progress which gives me the courage to blog and hope that someday i'll look back at this post and smile.
Began Blogging about a year ago, September 2013 to be precise. I can remember this vividly because that's my birth month. Decided to try something new since ASUU strike had sent us on compulsory holiday. Always wanted a website, but never created one before this time. Joblessness at home made me to finally put my thoughts into action. Didn't really know how to begin, just knew I wanted a place I could post stuff on either reasonable or crappy ones. As always, I went for my reliable search engine 'Google' and created a website which was on blogger platform. Before this time, I had no idea we had different platforms like blogger, word press, or personal website, or had any training in website design, an idea on what I wanted to post on the blog, talkless of the niche I wanted, and also that one could earn from blogging.
Also Read: Basic Tips For Blogging
The Blogging Experience
With the little experience I've gained from blogging, I can now pinpoint the mistakes I made on my first blog which was gracejoseph446.blogspot.com these were:
1. Looking at the URL, other than it's length which is too long, it's complicated with three numbers. This will be hard to recall by readers if in future they want to refer to my blog. You hardly see any professional blog using such URL.
2. No 'After the jump' Summaries: Had about 9 to 10 post on my homepage and each post had no 'read more' tag. You can already imagine how lengthy the home page was and really hard to view other post. Readers had no choice in choosing to which post to read. This will in turn reduce the page views since the content are out on display right from the first visit. It was Oluwaseun of Hallanaija who helped out with things like how to use jump breaks on blogger, reducing the number of post on the homepage to reduce the page load time, instead of a template with a dark background, a better one preferably with a bright background, also referred me to sources for my page content.
Also Read: How To Centralise Blogger Title And Description
3. Blog content: Since I had nothing in mind to blog about, I went for entertainment. It seemed easier blogging about that or copying it to paste if that counts as blogging. Now I realize having original content or even an appropriately edited form of 'copy and paste' can do your blog a lot of good. As at then, you could search for a topic on Google and my blog would fall among the ones on either the 15th or 17th pages, yes! it irritated me a lot.
4. Blogger gadgets: I had a lot of them which also contributed in increasing my blog's page load time. I spent more time trying to design my blog instead of writing relevant content. Most bloggers do this, the design of the blog is one in a million but the content of the blog isn't half as good compared to the design. Before I began blogging, I can recall I bookmarked or saved webpages that provided answers to my questions each time I searched for them on Google and this wasn't because the blog had beautiful designs but it's ability to provide relevant solutions. I returned to these blogs over and over again if I wanted to learn more. What's the use of a beautiful blog if it's empty? The only gadgets that really matter are the basic blogger gadgets.
5. Large Image size: The images were of various sizes, some too tiny while others were extra large. This was because I was blogging from phone and not even a smart phone. Couldn't upload images directly to a blogger post, So I resorted to free image hosting sites. Later, discovered I could post with images by sending them through email.
6. Inconsistency and impatience : So far I wasn't seeing any progress in my blog in terms of traffic and earning some cool cash as I've heard some bloggers testify of. I visited and posted less often and finally I deserted the blog. I'll give credit to some of my fellow bloggers like Larry Frank of Flowing Tech Blog and Johnny Ode of Readers lodge who encouraged and made me realize it wasn't also easy at first for those who finally made it at blogging. From them, I got to know the relevance of backlinks, keywords, joining high PR forums, and above all not giving up.
Within me, I still had the desire to blog, so I created this blog informationtutorial15 (the Tutor). Changed my niche from entertainment because I didn't feel contented posting other people's work on my blog, stalking the net to be the first to get the breaking news. Since my main traffic wasn't coming from Google but social networking sites, it meant less or no page views when the blog was not updated. If I was to continue blogging, I wanted to write what I know, and content that will always generate traffic for me even if it got to be years old. With the knowledge gained from my former blog, i'm now spending time on things that matter more to make my blog better. Even though the traffic isn't rollingIn in thousands now, looking at my blog I can see some significant progress which gives me the courage to blog and hope that someday i'll look back at this post and smile.
Wednesday, November 11, 2015
Sliding Recent Posts Blogger Widget 2015
Animated Sliding Recent Posts Gadget/Widget For Blogger
This sliding recent posts blogger widget 2015 shows the most current blog posts from one of your blogs as a slide show on the other. Got more than one blog? then you can share traffic between both blogs with this animated recent posts blogger widget, just by adding it to the one with more page views. Your readers will be linked from one blog to the other. You can also use this recent post slider widget for blogger to advertise other people's blog or they can advertise yours by adding it to their blog. Each time a new post is made, it gets updated automatically on the recent post gadget as a slider with images. The Steps below will guide you on how to add one of the sliding recent posts blogger widgets 2015 in your blogger blog.
Also Read: 10+ Best Blogger Tips and Tricks
Stylish Popular Post Widget For Blogger
Numbered Page Navigation Widget For Blogger Blogs
This sliding recent posts blogger widget 2015 shows the most current blog posts from one of your blogs as a slide show on the other. Got more than one blog? then you can share traffic between both blogs with this animated recent posts blogger widget, just by adding it to the one with more page views. Your readers will be linked from one blog to the other. You can also use this recent post slider widget for blogger to advertise other people's blog or they can advertise yours by adding it to their blog. Each time a new post is made, it gets updated automatically on the recent post gadget as a slider with images. The Steps below will guide you on how to add one of the sliding recent posts blogger widgets 2015 in your blogger blog.
Also Read: 10+ Best Blogger Tips and Tricks
Stylish Popular Post Widget For Blogger
Numbered Page Navigation Widget For Blogger Blogs
How to Add Sliding Recent Posts Blogger Widget
- From your blogger dashboard,
- Goto 'Layout'
- Click on 'Add a Gadget'.
- Select 'Html/Javascript'. (refer to this post on how to add gadgets/widgets in blogger)
- Copy and paste one of the codes below for your preferred style of the the sliding recent posts blogger widget, then edit by replacing your URL where it's specified 'YOUR-URL'
Style 1
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://blogger-json-experiment.googlecode.com/svn/resources/blogger-feed-rotator-plugin/default-style.min.css"/>
<div id="slider-rotator" class="slider-rotator loading"></div>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://blogger-json-experiment.googlecode.com/svn/resources/blogger-feed-rotator-plugin/blogger-feed-rotator.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
makeSlider({
url: "http://YOUR-URL" // Add your blog URL
});
document.write('<a href="http://www.wegist.com/2015/04/jlos-ex-marc-anthony-and-new-wife.html " target="_blank" rel="dofollow"><font size="1" color="black">[Celebrity]</font></a>');
} </script>
Style 2
<style>
.gfg-root {
width: 100%;
height : auto;
position : relative;
overflow : hidden;
margin: 0 auto;
text-align : center;
font-size: 12px;
border: 1px solid #DBDBDB;
}
.gfg-title {
font-size: 16px;
font-weight : bold;
color : #6B6B6B;
background:#F3F3F3;
background-repeat: repeat;
line-height : 1.4em;
overflow : hidden;
white-space : nowrap;
padding: 5px;
text-shadow: 0px 2px #fff;
}
.gfg-entry {
background-color: #FFFFFF;
width : 100%;
height : 9.2em;
position : relative;
overflow : hidden;
text-align : left;
margin-top : 3px;
}
.gf-title a {
text-transform: capitalize;
color: #0000ff;
font-size: 14px;
}
.gfg-subtitle {
display: none;
}
.gfg-list {
position : relative;
overflow : hidden;
text-align : left;
}
.gfg-listentry {
line-height : 1.5em;
overflow : hidden;
white-space : nowrap;
text-overflow : ellipsis;
padding-left : 15px;
padding-right : 5px;
}
.gfg-listentry-odd {
background-color : #F3F3F3;
border-bottom : 1px dotted #CCCCCC;
padding: 5px;
}
.gfg-listentry-even {
background-color : #F3F3F3;
border-bottom : 1px dotted #CCCCCC;
padding: 5px;
}
.gfg-listentry-odd a{
color: #595959;
padding: 0 0px 0 10px;
}
.gfg-listentry-even a{
color: #242424;
padding: 0 0px 0 10px;
}
.gfg-listentry-highlight {
background: #FFFFFF;
}
.gfg-listentry-highlight:before {
position: absolute;
left: 0;
content: '\25BA ';
font-size: 14px;
color: #DBDBDB;
}
.gfg-listentry-highlight a {
color: #242424;
}
.gfg-root .gfg-entry .gf-result {
position : relative;
background-color: #ffffff;
width : auto;
height : 100%;
padding-left : 20px;
padding-right : 5px;
}
.gfg-root .gfg-entry .gf-result .gf-title {
font-size: 14px;
line-height : 1.2em;
overflow : hidden;
white-space : nowrap;
text-overflow : ellipsis;
margin-bottom : 2px;
margin-top: 5px;
}
.gfg-root .gfg-entry .gf-result .gf-snippet {
height : 3.8em;
color: #000000;
margin-top : 3px;
}
.clearFloat {
clear : both;}</style>
<script src="http://www.google.com/jsapi" type="text/javascript"></script><script src="http://www.google.com/uds/solutions/dynamicfeed/gfdynamicfeedcontrol.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
function showGadget() {var feeds = [{title:'List',url:'http://YOUR-URL/feeds/posts/default?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=10'},];
new GFdynamicFeedControl(feeds, 'feedGadget',{title: 'Latest Posts', numResults : 10, displayTime : 5000, hoverTime : 500});} google.load("feeds", "1");
google.setOnLoadCallback(showGadget);
</script>
<div id="feedGadget">Loading...</div>
4. Save the blogger widget and view your blog for the changes.
Also Read: Social Media Follow Buttons Widget For Blogger
Email Subscription Widget For Blogger
You have successfully added the animated sliding recent post blogger widget on your blog.
Facebook Invite Friends Button For Blogger
Facebook Invite Friends Button For Blogger
The Facebook 'Invite Friends' button for blogger can also be added as one of the best widget because it enables your blog readers to easily refer their friends to your Facebook fan page, thereby increasing your audience. Normally, this Facebook button can only be found on Facebook pages where Page administrators have to manually invite others to like the page and fans who have liked the page also inviting their friends. Taking advantage of thousands of users on a social networking site like Facebook can go a long way in improving your blog's audience.
Also Read: How to Add HTML Parse Tool To Blogger
Social Follow and Subscription Widget For Blogger
How does this facebook invite friends blogger widget work? Each time a person clicks on the 'invite friends button', a new pop-up window opens. They can invite as many as 50 friends (which is the limit) at once to like your page. Using this invite button can help in increasing the fans on your Facebook page, thereby bringing more traffic each time your blog post is shared on the page. Include this widget on your blog so that your readers can also invite their friends to like your page directly from your blog.
Also Read: 'Link to This Post Widget' For Blogger
Customized Labels Cloud Widget For Blogger
How to Add the Facebook Invite Friends Button to Blogger
1. Create a Facebook app by Going to Facebook Developer's Page.
2. You must be a registered developer before you can gain access to this to create apps on the page. To do this, click on the Register button on the top right corner.
3 Next, Click on 'Apps' tab, then select 'Create new app'.
4. Enter a name of your choice for the app and also an identifier(optional), Select your app's category from the drop down menu. Then click 'create'.
5. You'll get an app Id, copy the ID into a notepad or text editor
6. Still on the Facebook developer's page, click on 'app page', and then go to 'settings'. Select 'Add a new platform' and then click on 'Website'. Fill the spaces appropriately with your URL and also mobile URL of your site, and then save your changes.
7.
- .Goto your blogger dashboard
- Click on 'layout'
- then select 'add gadget'
- select 'html/javascript'.
- Copy the entire code below into the html/javascript editor. Before you save, edit the code by replacing the app ID in the code with your 'app ID' which you copied from Facebook developer's page. Also edit the 'facebook page url' in the code, replace it with yours.
- Then Save the gadget
<style>
/*Facebook Invite Friends Button CSS http://www.informationtutorial15.blogspot.com*/
.MD_fb_invite a{
font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif !important;
font-weight:bold !important;
font-size:12px !important;
width:150px !important;
border:solid #3b6e22 1px !important;
border-bottom:solid #2c5115 1px !important;
cursor:pointer !important;
padding:6px 6px 6px 6px !important;
background-color:#68a64c !important;
border-top:solid #98c286 1px !important;
text-align:center !important;
color:#fff !important;
text-decoration:none ! important;
}
.MD_fb_invite a:active{
background-color:#609946 !important;
}
/*End CSS http://www.informationtutorial15.blogspot.com*/
</style>
<script src='http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js'></script>
<script>
FB.init({
appId:'533069656825293',
cookie:true,
status:true,
xfbml:true
});
function FacebookInviteFriends()
{
FB.ui({
method: 'apprequests',
message: 'Invite your friends '
});
}
</script>
<div id='fb-root'></div>
<span class='MD_fb_invite'><a href='http://www.facebook.com/newsville' onclick='FacebookInviteFriends();'>
Invite your friends
</a></span>
<script type='text/javascript'>
if (top.location!= self.location)
{
top.location = self.location
}
</script>
- Save the gadget
Social Follow Blogger Gadget
One of the best blogger gadgets which allows your readers to follow you and get your blog's updates on social networking sites is the social follow gadget. This means more loyal readers, increased traffic and number of followers. You don't have to fill up your blog with seperate social follow gadgets which can increase your blog's page load time. Socializing is necessary to increase you blog's popularity and another SEO technique since it appears in search results.
Also Read: Twitter Feeds Widget For Blogger
1. From your Blogger dashboard, go to 'Template'. As usual Backup your template before making any new changes to it.
2. Click 'Edit HTML'.Press ctrl+F and search forcode in your blogger template and paste this code just 'below'
Also Read: How to Add 'Link to This Post Widget' to Blogger Post
Also Read: Sliding Recent Posts Gadget For Blogger
4. After adding the code given above on either the second or thirdedit it and make some necessary changes in the USER-ID for each social network. The first two are for Facebook which is the Username, the third and fourth are the Twitter handles and the last two are for Feedburner ID. Save the Template.
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Also Read: Twitter Feeds Widget For Blogger
How to Add Social Follow Gadget to Blogger
1. From your Blogger dashboard, go to 'Template'. As usual Backup your template before making any new changes to it.
2. Click 'Edit HTML'.Press ctrl+F and search for
<data:post.body/>
<data:post.body/>
Also Read: How to Add 'Link to This Post Widget' to Blogger Post
<section class="newsletter">
<h2>
Tired of checking for new posts ?
</h2>
<div id="form-newsletter">
<div class="social facebook">
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/newsville" target="_blank">
<img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWmKt7iajFocWE5-ggDsBFfDErQ2YM7dZxAe9hkazqRf0GHJHLAEnaDDjGSEYyuASFcvI1Eq7SNaMGgTvcrcbMbzpwmie2D-_FlMlSi3G-EfiGFPYhFVZhiGIsJ6itWy1KUFQR-8jGQQFY/s1600/nl-facebook@2x.png" />
</a>
<iframe allowtransparency="true" class="social-box fb-like" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" src="//www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fnewsville&width=90&height=21&colorscheme=light&layout=button_count&action=like&show_faces=false&send=false&appId=519648428126767&locale=en_US" style="border: none; height: 21px; overflow: hidden; width: 90px;">
</iframe>
</div>
<div class="social twitter">
<a href="https://twitter.com/news_ville" target="_blank">
<img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP4z0ZB7IaiU-tITV06aPK2ZA_RWGzDtci7XKA2kD5-knEeHxMUrSGYPY-UlsbSWpVrenswXt8FqWEviud7xDfWbbMHQtHHEYG196BCn5LxWz3jvgb03i7w-VzMKpWT2F6QXQPQJNHdD5h/s1600/nl-twitter@2x.png" />
</a>
<iframe allowtransparency="true" class="social-box twitter-follow-button twitter-follow-button" data-twttr-rendered="true" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" src="http://platform.twitter.com/widgets/follow_button.1399599786.html#_=1399785529920&id=twitter-widget-0&lang=en&screen_name=informationtutorial158&show_count=false&show_screen_name=false&size=m" style="height: 20px; width: 60px;" title="Twitter Follow Button">
</iframe>
<script>
!function(d,s,id){
var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';
if(!d.getElementById(id)){
js=d.createElement(s);
js.id=id;
js.src=p+'://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');
</script>
</div>
<div class="newsletter-form">
<fieldset>
<h2>
Get all posts directly in your mail.
</h2>
<div class="fields">
<form action="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify" method="post" onsubmit="window.openundefined'http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=informationtutorial158', 'popupwindow', 'scrollbars=yes,width=550,height=520');return true" target="popupwindow">
<input class="email" id="email" name="email" onblur="ifundefinedthis.value=='')this.value=this.defaultValue;" onfocus="ifundefinedthis.value==this.defaultValue)this.value='';" type="text" value="Enter Your Email here.." />
<input name="uri" type="hidden" value="informationtutorial158" />
<input name="loc" type="hidden" value="en_US" />
<input class="subscribe" name="commit" type="submit" value="Subscribe" />
</form>
</div>
</fieldset>
</div>
</div>
</section>
<style>
.newsletter{text-align:center;margin:20px 0;}
.newsletter .social.facebook{background:none repeat scroll 0 0 #3661A0}
.newsletter .social{padding-top:20%;width:20%;float:left;position:relative}
.newsletter #form-newsletter{display:block;width:90%;max-width:900px;min-width:500px;margin:0 auto}
.newsletter:before,.newsletter:after{content:" ";display:table}
.newsletter:after{clear:both}
.newsletter h2{color:#3B434D;font-family:Open Sans,sans-serif;font-size:1.5em;font-weight:300;width:65%;margin:1em auto}
.newsletter .social.twitter{background:none repeat scroll 0 0 #00ACED}
.newsletter .social a{display:block;left:30%;position:absolute;top:20%;width:40%}
.newsletter .social a img{max-width:100%;width:100%;transition: transform 0.3s ease-out 0s}
.newsletter .social a:hover img{transform:scale(1.1)}
.newsletter .social .social-box{bottom:20px;left:50%;position:absolute}
.newsletter .social .social-box.fb-like{margin-left:-45px}
.newsletter .social .social-box.twitter-follow-button{margin-left:-30px}
.newsletter .newsletter-form{background:none repeat scroll 0 0 #1E293B;float:left;padding-top:20%;position:relative;width:60%}
.newsletter .newsletter-form fieldset{height:38px;left:10%;position:absolute;top:10%;width:80%;border:none}
.newsletter .newsletter-form fieldset h2{color:#FFF;font-family:Open Sans, sans-serif;font-weight:300;width:100%;margin:0 0 1.5625em;font-size:16px;}
.newsletter .newsletter-form fieldset .fields{position:relative}
.fields .email{border-radius:10px 0 0 10px;outline:0 none;width:84%;border:0;left:0;position:absolute;padding:10.5px}
.fields .subscribe{background:none repeat scroll 0 0 #F0553B;border:medium none;border-radius:0 10px 10px 0;color:#FFF;right:0;position:absolute;padding:10px;transition:all ease 0.6s;}
.fields .subscribe:hover {background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #161616;}
</style>
<script type="text/JavaScript">
fontsize = function () {
var abtSubs = $(".newsletter #form-newsletter").width() * 0.025; // 10% of container width
$(".newsletter .newsletter-form fieldset h2").css('font-size', abtSubs);
};
$(window).resize(fontsize);
$(document).ready(fontsize);
</script>
Also Read: Sliding Recent Posts Gadget For Blogger
4. After adding the code given above on either the second or third
<data:post.body/>
How To Show Adsense Ads Below Blogger Post Title
Another blogger trick on how to display adsense ads below blogger post title to help you earn from your blog. How much you'll make from adsense depends on your traffic and where you place the ads to increase your CPC. Best places to show adsense ads are usually below the post title, in the middle or within the post body. This doesn't go against adsense policies. The adsense ads can be centalized, wrapped around text or aligned to the left within post. To do this, follow the steps below on how to show Adsense Ads below blogger post title.
Also Read: How to Add HTML Parse Tool To Blogger
How to Add Read More Attribution Links to Copied Text in Blogger
5. Replace 'PLACE YOUR AD CODE HERE' in the code above with your parsed adsense code. Save your blogger template. Goto your blog, you should see the new changes, if not paste the parsed ad code above the next <data:post.body/> you see.
Also Read: How To Centralise Blogger Title And Description
How To Add Customs Header Tags In Blogger
Also Read: Google Adsense Ads Now Showing In Opera Mini
Automatically Open all External Links in a New Window On Blogger
NOTE: In each of the codes above, ensure you replace 'PLACE YOUR AD HERE' with your parsed adsense code and you'll have adsense ads displaying within your blogger post title in no time.
Also Read: How to Add HTML Parse Tool To Blogger
How to Add Read More Attribution Links to Copied Text in Blogger
How To Place Adsense Ads In The Middle Of Blogger Post
- Next is to parse the code you generated from your adsense account. Visit this link to parse the adsense code . On the html parse site, paste your code and click on 'convert' . Your parsed code will be generated. Copy this into a notepad or any text editor. The parse code you generated is what we"ll be using.
- From your adsense account, create a new ad unit or get the code to any previous ad unit you have. Most preferred ones are usually 300*250 Medium Rectangle or 336*280 Large Rectangle ad sizes.
- Goto your blogger dashboard, click on 'template'. It will be advisable for you to backup your template first.
- Click on "edit html" in your template, Use Ctrl+F and search for this tag <data:post.body/> copy the code below and paste 'above' <data:post.body/>. This tag ( <data:post.body/>) will appear more than once in your template, paste the code either on the second or third tag, depending on which will work in displaying the adsense ad.
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
PLACE YOUR AD CODE HERE
</b:if>
5. Replace 'PLACE YOUR AD CODE HERE' in the code above with your parsed adsense code. Save your blogger template. Goto your blog, you should see the new changes, if not paste the parsed ad code above the next <data:post.body/> you see.
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How To Align Adsense Ad Within Blogger Post
- By default, the ad will be aligned to the left as shown in the image above. If you'll like your post to wrap around the adsense ad, then copy this code below and paste 'above' <data:post.body/>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
<div style='float:left; margin:10px;'> // type this line manually, dont copy and paste
PLACE YOUR AD CODE HERE
</div>
</b:if>
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How To Centralize Adsense Ad Within Blogger Post
- If you'll the ad to be centralized in your post, and the post below the Ad, copy this code instead..
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
<div align='center'>
PLACE YOUR AD CODE HERE
</div>
</b:if>
NOTE: In each of the codes above, ensure you replace 'PLACE YOUR AD HERE' with your parsed adsense code and you'll have adsense ads displaying within your blogger post title in no time.
How to Track Blogging Success
Establishing a successful blog entails more than just updating content regularly. You need to keep up with current trends to ensure your content remains relevant in your niche. For instance, most websites that are not mobile friendly have been faced with a challenge ranking highly. This is attributed to the fact that most users are now accessing information over their mobile devices. Apart from ensuring the website is easily accessible, you can track its performance to learn about market responsiveness of the information you share. Here are ways you can track the progress of your blog to ensure it matches with your goals and plans.
Bounce rate
The bounce rate of a blog shows the total number of visitors who arrive on the blog, but leave without doing much on the website. This could be attributed to reasons such as clicking on links that lead users to pages that contain information they are not looking for. In other cases, it could mean the user was able to find a keyword on your website linked to what they are searching but that query is not addressed on the content you have. You can use this information to implement a plan that can help to make the blog better for retention of visitors and to attract more visits.
Page views
For page views to be recorded, you can install tools like WebBeak at the backend to help you track all visits that are made on all pages within a specified period of time. This way, you are able to track the amount of traffic received on your page. You can also easily compare different content to know what can help to increase views on your blog. WebBeak is software that helps you to track the total number of views recorded on any page and they can offer an in-depth view for a small fee. You can also use the free package to track total visits made on a page every day.
Social media shares
When you build a blog and connect it with social media, you will have many people share your content if it interests them. You can easily track the number of people who share content from the blog through use of various tools. For Pinterest, you can use Pin Count, which allows you to know the number of pins and repins to your post. ShareTally is a tool that offers information about the total number of shares made including ones recorded from Pinterest. With more shares, you will understand that such content is catching, so you may opt to use a similar style while preparing content for other posts and pages on your blog.
Content by title
The content by title report helps you to scan how your content is performing when compared to other pages. You can easily note content that is gaining much preference and in future you may create similar content to keep the readers engaged. This in turn helps one to earn more traffic in the long run. For instance if you ran a security company such as Pro-Vigil, you could divide your pages into different sections just like they do, you could then track which pages get the most visitors and have the highest conversions.
Mobile devices
Google analytics offers a more sophisticated scan to show the number of people visiting your blog on mobile devices and those using their computers. This information is necessary as you may have to structure your website to allow easier access over mobile devices.
New vs returning visitors
This report allows you to have insight regarding the behavior of all visitors to your website. When there are many visitors visiting without returning, you may have to consider improving the blog to make it more impressive. This implies the content and design of the blog does not offer what most visitors are looking for.
About the Author
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How to Add Floating Share Buttons to Blogger
Below are guidelines on how to add floating share buttons to blogger blogs. This blogger widget appears at the side of all pages on your blog, clearly seen by your audience. Having your post shared by your readers with share buttons on social networking sites like facebook and twitter could be rewarding by bringing more traffic to your blog and with more blog traffic, better chances to get clicks on your ads. This is because each time your readers use the Floating Share Buttons to share your blog post on facebook or any other social network, if it is of interest to their friends they can also click on the link or reshare the post. Follow the steps below to add the Floating Share Buttons to your blog.
- From your blogger dashboard
- Click on 'layout'.
- Next, click on 'Add Gadget'.
- Copy and Paste the code below into the text field
<!-- floating page sharers Start Share This With Friends-->
<style>
#pageshare {position:fixed; bottom:15%; right:10px; float:left; border-radius:5px;-moz-border-radius:5px;-webkit-border-radius:5px;background-color:#fff;padding:0 0 2px 0;z-index:10;}
#pageshare .sbutton {float:left;clear:both;margin:5px 5px 0 5px;}
.fb_share_count_top {width:48px !important;}
.fb_share_count_top, .fb_share_count_inner {-moz-border-radius:3px;-webkit-border-radius:3px;}
.FBConnectButton_Small, .FBConnectButton_RTL_Small {width:49px !important; -moz-border-radius:3px;-webkit-border-radius:3px;}
.FBConnectButton_Small .FBConnectButton_Text {padding:2px 2px 3px !important;-moz-border-radius:3px;-webkit-border-radius:3px;font-size:8px;}
</style>
<div id='pageshare' title="Share This With Your Friends">
<div class='sbutton' id='rt'>
<a href="http://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-count="vertical" data-via='informationtutorial15' >Tweet</a>
<script src='http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js' type="text/javascript"></script>
</div>
<div class='sbutton' id='gb'>
<script src="http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1"></script>
<fb:like layout="box_count" show_faces="false" font=""></fb:like></div>
<div class='sbutton' id='gplusone'>
<g:plusone size="tall"></g:plusone>
</div>
<div class='sbutton' id='at'>
<a class="addthis_counter"></a>
<script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js"></script>
</div>
<div style="clear: both;font-size: 9px;text-align:center;"> <a href="http://informationtutorial15.blogspot.com/2015/11/how-to-add-floating-share-buttons-on.html">Get this</a></div>
</div>
<!-- floating page sharers End -->
- Save the widget. View your blog to see the floating share buttons in your sidebar.
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